"Hard Work, Grit, Tenacity and Not Giving Up" - Robinhood Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt's Life Lessons
In this episode of Giant Ideas, Cameron sits down with the co‑founder of Robinhood to talk about where it all began, and what founders today can learn.
They discuss:
- The origin story & friendship of the co-founders of Robinhood: Growing up as children of immigrant and meeting at Stanford
- 75 VC rejections: Why investors said young people would never invest, and what those VCs fundamentally missed
- Founder mindset: Changing your mind as a superpower, “gradient descent” as a way to iterate on ideas, and why early-stage investing is really about the people.
- Finding product‑market fit & the…
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